Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Well I stand corrected by Gold Coast Greg, who has pointed out that I am wrong about the Egg. It’s the other way around. The dogs pinched it from the trots. From the Fairfield trots to be precise. Fairfield had been running the Golden Easter Egg for 25 years when the yappers appropriated the name. […]
The biggest race on the annual NSW greyhound calendar is the time honoured Golden Easter Egg, a rich and highly coveted Group 1 feature event that has been running since the year 1990. The Egg is quintessentially the dogs, and the name is uniquely theirs, or was anyway until Harness Racing NSW cursed themselves by […]
Harness Racing NSW has won no friends with it’s last minute cancellation of Friday afternoon’s Wagga trot meeting, a card that was set to feature the heats of the NSW Regional Championships. The meeting was cancelled less than an hour before stabling time, on the ostensible basis of inclement weather and the state of the […]
Sundees Sun smashed yet another New Zealand record at Addington on Friday night. In fact he obliterated it. The fastest time ever run by a square gaiter from the mobile over 2600m in NZ was 3.12.3 coming into this year’s edition of the Group 1 Fred Shaw Memorial Trotting Championship. Sundees Sun ran 3.10.4. He […]
Francis Finnegan – Frankie – says he’s ‘confused’ and ‘taken aback’ by a ruling from the Victorian Racing Tribunal to disqualify him from training for two years. He says that he expected to cop a $5000 fine for pulling a fraud on the racing and punting world by running his talented young horse No Frontiers […]
Redcliffe is a crap trot track and it always has been. No-one wants to bet on it. And no-one but the desperates do. Since Albion Park’s electricals got stuffed up by being submerged under water in the floods the Saturday night meeting has been forced to take place at the crap track, because it is […]
The only thing that punters were talking about all week was the Queen Elizabeth Stakes This 2000m Group 1 classic was shaping as the race of the decade so far, and would and should have been too, if it wasn’t for just one thing. No it wasn’t the Heavy 10 track. It was how James […]
Jimmy Mack is the best pacer in South Australia by panels. Since coming across from WA the horse owned by Merv Butterworth of Copy That fame had won 12 of his 15 starts coming into the 6th race at Globe Derby last night, which is why he started at $1.28. The only times that Jimmy […]
What it is that Harness Racing New Zealand and the Racing Board don’t get about race scheduling? It is a pretty simple concept. You put your meetings in the place where they will attract the most wagering turnover. Bets = Revenue Revenue = Funding Funding = Prizemoney How hard is that to understand? Not very. […]
AR 132(7)(a)(ii) Limits on the use of a whip by a rider (7) Subject to the other requirements in this rule: (i) the whip must not be used in consecutive strides; (ii) the whip must not be used on more than 5 occasions except where there have only been minor infractions and the totality of […]
